Exploring different browsers

There are so many types and categories of browsers that it is hard to keep track of them all. I have listed a few browsers that we have installed and used and find it somewhat useful to use.

w3m

w3m is a text based browser which can display local or remote web pages as well as other documents. It is able to process HTML tables and frames but it ignores JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets. w3m can also serve as a pager for text files named as arguments or passed on standard input, and as a general purpose directory browser.

lynx

Lynx is a fully-featured text based World Wide Web (WWW) client for users running cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices (e.g., vt100 terminals, vt100 emulators running on Windows 95/NT/XP/7/8  or  any POSIX  platform,  or any other “curses-oriented” display).  It will display hypertext markup language (HTML) documents containing links to files residing on the local system, as well as files residing on remote  systems  running  Gopher, HTTP, FTP, WAIS, and NNTP servers.  Current versions of Lynx run on Unix, VMS, Windows 95/NT/XP/7/8, DOS DJGPP and OS/2.

netrik

netrik is an advanced text mode HTML (WWW) browser, that is to say a web browser running on character cell displays (linux console, xterm etc.) -- not unlike w3m, links or lynx.

When invoked with a filename or URL as argument, the specified document is loaded and displayed in interactive mode, so you can start browsing the web or some local HTML repository from there. (Alter‐natively the document can be just layouted and dumped to the screen, see OPTIONS below.)

When invoked with '-' instead of a file/URL, an HTML document is read from standard input, and dis‐played just the same.

links2

links2 is a text mode WWW browser with ncurses interface, supporting colors, correct table rendering, background downloading, menu driven configuration interface and slim code.

elinks

ELinks is a text mode WWW browser, supporting colors, table rendering, background downloading, menu driven configuration interface, tabbed browsing and slim code.